Tool-head fastening



' J. P. HEBERT ET AL TOOL HEAD FASTENING Sept. 29, 1927.

Filed Ju1y20, 1926 JZRHeber/ amoentow attomwu a Patented Sept. 20, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT, OFFICE.

J'OSERH P. HEBERT AND HOMER P. HEIBERT, 0F CHIPPEWA FALLS, WISCONSIN.

TOOL-HEAD FASTENING.

' Application filed July 20,

This invention aims to provide a novel tool handle, and to provide novel means for retaining the handle in the head of a hammer or other similar tool.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the invention appertains.

lkVith the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings Figure 1 shows in elevation, a tool constructed in accordance with the invention, parts being broken away, and parts appearing in section;

Figure 2 is an elevation of the handle, parts being broken away;

Figure 3 is a plan wherein the handle is viewed edgewise, parts being broken away; and

Figure 4 is a-fragmental elevation of the head, with the handle mounted therein.

The device forming the subject matter of this application may be embodied in tools of widely different sorts, a hammer being selected as one form in which the invention may be incorporated. The tool comprises a metal head 1 having an eye 2, which may be. tapered in any desired way, for instance, about as indicated at 3, to form an internal shoulder 4.

The numeral 5-marks a wooden handle having a longitudinal slot 6 which opens through one end of the handle, and which terminates in spaced relation to the opposite end of the handle. A metal plate 7 is located in the slot 6 of the handle 5 and is held in place by a securing element 12, such as a rivet, disposed near to the inner end of the plate 7. The metal plate 7 extends entirely through the handle transversely. In the outer end of the plate 7, a longitudinal slit 8 is formed. The slit 8 is located nearer to one edge of the plate 7 than to the other, as clearly shown in Figure 1, so

1926. Serial No. 123,705.

as to form a tongue 9, which is readily bendable.

. The handlev 5 is mounted in the eye 2 of the head 1, and a wedge 10 is driven into the slit 8 of the plate 7, and into the end of the handle 5, thereby expanding the handle, and, also, flexing the tongue 9 across the shoulder l, into engagement with the head 1, within the eye 2. In order to retain the wedge 10 in place, the plate 7 is distorted at its ends, by beating it out, to form wings 11 which engage the end of the wedge 10 after the wedge has been driven to place, asshown in Figure 1. The slit 8 is long enough so that, when the handle 5.is in place in the eye 2 of the head 1, the slit extends inwardly, beyond the shoulder 4, and, therefore, the tongue 9 may be bent readily into the position of Figure 1, before the wedge 10 arrives at the inner end of the slit 8.

The operator, therefore, is always assured of the fact that the wedge 10 can enter far enough into the slit 8 to bend the tongue 9 into tight engagement with the head, within the eye 2.

It is to be observed that, throughout the entire length of the eye 2, both edges of the metal plate 7 are in engagement with the head 1, the head 1, thus, is held on the handle 5, by an engagement of metal with metal, and the head will not loosen, as is the case when the binding action of expanded wood is relied upon, wholly, or in part.

WVhat is claimed is A tool of the class described, comprising a head having a tapered eye, a handle mounted in the eye, a metal plate extended entirely through the handle transversely and engaged with the head at opposite sides of the eye, the plate being provided in its outer end with a slit defining a bendable tongue, and a wedge inserted into the slit and into the handle, the wedge expanding the handle within the eye, and flexing the tongue to cause it to bear upon the head Within the eye, the plate being provided with a lip which engages and holds the wedge.

In testimony that we claim theforegoing as our own, We have hereto aflixed our signatures.

JOSEPH P. HEBERT. HOMER P. HEBERT. 

